Word.ws English Dictionary

pierhead

pierhead noun: the end of a pier farthest from shore.

Noun

pierhead (plural pierheads)

  1. The end of a pier farthest from shore.
    • It came floating like a tethered cloud past the little white toy-like lighthouse at the pierhead.1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 21
    • Here on Papay folk will speak slowly and sympathetically in a one-to-one conversation with a 'soothmoother', but if you're on the fringes of a pierhead debate about the price of cattle or the weather, then you'll soon be submerged beneath a fast-flowing terminological tidal wave.1996, Jim Hewitson, Clinging to the Edge: Journals from an Orkney Island, page 41

Forms of pierhead

pluralpierheads

Origin of pierhead

From pier + head.

Words formed from pierhead

Phrases with pierhead

Questions about pierhead

What does pierhead mean?
Pierhead means the end of a pier farthest from shore.
What part of speech is pierhead?
Pierhead is a noun.
What is the plural of pierhead?
The plural of pierhead is pierheads.

Words near pierhead in the dictionary

  1. Piercy
  2. Piercys
  3. piered
  4. pierglass
  5. pierglasses
  6. pierhead
  7. pierhead line
  8. pierhead lines
  9. pierheads
  10. Pieria
  11. Pierian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pierhead (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pierhead.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pierhead. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.